Education
Name: Lifestyle Balance
Length: 12 weeks
Description: The program is called "Lifestyle Balance" because it can help individuals reach and maintain a healthy balance between three parts of their lifestyle:
- Eating
- Physical Activity
- Emotional Eating: Identify triggers that contribute to emotional eating patterns
Please speak to your doctor to see if this is the right program for you
Name: Relaxation Skills
Length: 8 weeks (2 hours once a week)
Description: This is a group where we practice relaxation through getting down on the floor for most every session, trying out visualizations, progressive muscle relaxation, guided mindful meditations, etc. Client should be able to lie down on mat on floor or sit in chair for most of 2 hours.
Name: Making Connections
Description: Making Connections is a new program where patients of Taddle Creek can get together to make some positive changes in life. This peer-support group will provide you with practical skills and strategies to become more fit physically, socially, and emotionally. Together we will be going on outings and excursions, doing light physical exercises like fitness walking, volunteer for the community, or enjoy any other group activities you and your peers have in mind. Join us if you are feeling bored, isolated, or want to make a few new friends and have some fun!
Name: Assertiveness Day Long Workshop
Length: One session
Description: This is a workshop for people who are either passive, aggressive, or passive aggressive, or who bounce back between these options, and who want to learn some practical understanding of what it means to be assertive and some assertiveness skills. This is not a group for people who struggle with being violent or abusive.
Name: Healing from Childhood Abuse Women's Group
Length: 10 weeks (2 hours per week)
Description: This is a pycho-education, skill building, and mutual support group for women survivors of childhood and/or teenage traumas
Learning Objectives: Together we will brainstorm topics we want to explore together.
Some typical topics include:
- How my childhood trauma impacted me
- Triggers, flashbacks and nightmares
- Being real with yourself about your struggles & coping patterns
- Skills of self-soothing & managing feelings or grounding by yourself
- Loneliness, trust & isolation
- Healthy & unhealthy relationships
- A commitment to safety & self-protection & walking away if needed
- Assertiveness & communication
- Having reasonable expectations of others
- Dealing with our families now
- Taking reasonable risks
- Being open - saying yes!
- Boundaries - saying no!
Lead: Brenda Ponic, Lead Social Worker
Maximum Class Size: 12
Referral: Primary Care Provider to refer to Mental Health Program
Name: Senior's Initiative - Educational Workshop on: Physical Fitness and Mobility
Length: Once (2 Hours)
Description: As part of our Senior's Initiative, our fourth educational workshop for Seniors 60+ is scheduled for Friday, November 23rd, 2012 (from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM). The workshop topic will be on Physical Fitness and Mobility, and it is our honour to be able to invite Chris Moffett (Certified Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer and Older Adult Fitness Specialist), to come to the workshop as our Guest/Expert Speaker.
Learning Objectives:
For all those who are 60+, have you ever wondered about:
- The interrelationship between aging and physical mobility?
- The importance of active living in the aging process?
- How to know when we are over-extending ourselves as opposed to not exercising enough?
- Tips, strategies and resources on how to be more physically active?
- Or if you have any other fitness-related questions...?
Presenters: Chris Moffett (Certified Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer and Older Adult Fitness Specialist)
Maximum Class Size: 25
Pre-requisite: Must be a patient of TC FHT, age 60+
Referral: Self-referral. To R.S.V.P. or for more information, please contact our Social Worker, Raymond Chong, at 416-260-1315 x 308 or email to rchong@tcfht.on.ca
Name: Chronic Pain Self-Management Program
Length: 6 weeks (2.5 hours once a week)
Registration Fee: There will be a $20.00 registration fee to participate in this program.
Description: This workshop is based on Stanford University's Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP) and it aims to provide you with practical skills and tools to manage your pain and help you take control of your wellbeing. Classes are highly participative, where mutual support is utilized to build the participants' confidence in their ability to manage their health and maintain active and fulfilling lives.
You will receive a certificate of completion for attending all classes.
Learning Objectives: This Chronic Pain Self-Management will help you learn:
- Techniques to deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, isolation, and poor sleep
- Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance
- Appropriate use of medications Communicating effectively with family friends, and health professionals
- Nutrition Pacing activity and rest
- How to evaluate new treatments Workshop
Lead: TC FHT Pharmacist and Social Worker. Leaders will be trained and certified to lead the workshops
Maximum Class Size: 12
Pre-requisite: Patient of TC FHT living with chronic pain. A caregiver or relative is welcome to participate in the workshop with you. They too will benefit from the problem-solving skills related to managing chronic pain.
Referral: Self-referral but reservation is required. Contact TC FHT administration staff at 416-260-1315, ext. 0, or ask your primary care provider to refer you to the program.
Name: Bereavement Support Group
Length: 8 weeks (1.5 hours once a week)
Description: Taddle Creek Family Health Team is introducing a new Bereavement Support Group. The purpose of this Bereavement Support Group is to provide psychoeducation on the bereavement process, and to offer Patients opportunity for peer support.
Learning Objectives: Topics will include
- Discussions of the death
- Opportunities to process and grieve loss
- Self-care, expressing feelings and thoughts
- Reintegrating with life, developing bonds etc.
Lead: TCFHT Social Worker
Maximum Class Size: 12
Pre-requisite: For Patients of TC FHT who are dealing with grief and loss due to the death of a beloved. Please note, there are no exclusion criteria based solely on length of time since the loss
Referral: Self-referral but reservation is required. Contact TC FHT administration staff at 416-260-1315, ext. 0, or ask your primary care provider to refer you to the program.
Name: CBT for Depression
Length: 8 weeks (1.5 hours once a week)
Description: This workshop teaches strategies to patients suffering from depression. It aims to alleviate depression through the direct modification of the client's negative beliefs. This is done by challenging our perception of events through identifying faulty thought patterns.
Learning Objectives:
- To learn CBT strategies and skills
- To increase behavioural activation
- To learn more adaptive ways of thinking to decrease depression
- To examine how our thoughts and beliefs are connected to our mood, behaviours, physical experiences and events in our lives.
Workshop Lead: Social Worker with specialized CBT Training
Maximum Class Size: 10
Special Notes: Participants must be 19 years or older and patient of TC FHT
Referral: Primary Care Provider to refer to Mental Health Program.
Name: CBT for Anxiety
Length: 10 weeks (2 hours once a week)
Description: This workshop teaches patients suffering from anxiety cognitive behavior strategies in a group format. It aims to identify, evaluate, and balance distress-related thoughts by examining how our thoughts and beliefs are connected to our mood, behaviors, physical experiences and events in our lives. The central idea in this approach is that our perception of an event or experience powerfully affects our emotional, behavioral and physiological responses to it. The Mind Over Mood workbook by Greenberger and Padesky is used.
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the physiology of anxiety
- To learn CBT strategies and skills
- To examine how our thoughts and beliefs are connected to our mood, behaviors, physical experiences and events in our lives
- To be able to identify, evaluate and balance distress related thoughts
- To learn techniques for relapse prevention
Workshop Lead: Social Worker with specialized CBT Training
Maximum Class Size: 10
Referral: Primary Care Provider to refer to Mental Health Program.
Name: Multiple Family Group Therapy (MFG)
Length: Ongoing (1.5 hours once a week)
Description: "Sometimes it is easier to see something in someone else, than it is to see in ourselves." This is a group therapy where three or four families meet together on a weekly basis to discuss family problems in communication and relationship and work together to access family and individual strenghts.
Learning Objectives:
- Improve communication skills (speaking and listening)
- Increased trust
- Greater understanding of family members
- Group support
Workshop Lead: Two social workers with experience facilitating group therapy and family therapy experience.
Maximum Class Size: 4 families Special Notes: Participants must be 19 years or older and patient of TC FHT
Referral: A referral to the Taddle Creek Mental Health Team, completion of the intake, and a family assessment help the team identify families that will benefit from this treatment.
Name: Wellness and Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
Length: 8 weeks (2 hours once a week)
Description: This is a peer support program where you work on recovering your wellness and creating your own WRAP. A WRAP is a system for monitoring, reducing and eliminating uncomfortable or dangerous physical symptoms and emotional feelings.
Learning Objectives:
- To develop an individualized "Wellness Toolbox" that includes for example, a daily maintenance plan, a list of your triggers, crisis planning, etc.
- To create positive change in your life
- To decrease occurrence rates of acute episodes of mental health challenges
- To become empowered by building your own network of supports
- To begin to develop the necessary skills to become a WRAP Facilitator yourself!
Workshop Lead: Mental Health Recovery Educator, WRAP Facilitator
Outside Links: Contacts for WRAP - www.mentalhealthrecovery.com, Copeland Center - www.copelandcenter.com
Maximum Class Size: 10
Special Notes: Participants must be 19 years or older and patient of TC FHT
WRAP will only be held when there are 7 registrants
Referral: Self referral - Contact Taddle Creek Family Health Team Administration Staff at 416-260-1315, ext. 0 for the next available opening
Name: CBT Drop In
Length: Ongoing (2 hours), the second Wednesday of every month, from 5:30-7:30 pm.
Description: This group is for patients who have already completed either the CBT for Depression or Anxiety Group, and who want to continue to build on their existing CBT skills. In this casual yet structured environment, patients discuss particular aspects of their life where they have been successful in applying CBT skills and where they could use a "tune-up". Topics such as thoughts, records, action plans and core beliefs will be discussed. You can drop in at any time. No strings attached! Please feel free to participate in the 'pot luck' element of this group.
Learning Objectives:
- To keep up with CBT skills
- To share resources and provide support to others
- To complete 'homework' and ensure motivation, enhance skills
- To have a good laugh and de-stress
Workshop Lead: Social Worker with specialized CBT training
Maximum Class Size: Unlimited
Pre-requisite: Must have attended TC FHT CBT groups in the past
Referral: Self referral - Contact Taddle Creek Family Health Team Administration Staff at 416-260-1315, ext. 0 for the next available opening
Name: Craving Change
Length: 6 weeks (2.0 hours once a week)
Description: This workshop is a how-to guide for changing your relationship with food.
Learning Objectives:
- To understand WHY you eat the way you do
- To learn to comfort yourself without food
- To change your thinking and change your eating
Workshop Lead: FHT Dietitians and Social Workers
Maximum Class Size: 10
Special Notes: Participants must be 16 years or older and patient of TC FHT. This workshop does not support individuals suffering from eating disorders. These conditions are best managed with individual nutritional counseling.
Referral: Contact TC FHT Administrative Staff (416-260-1315) for next available opening